[TriLUG] 1394 card for a Linux box

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, James Jones wrote:

> Joe,
>
> I am happy we have Intrex in the area ( I go to the Old 
> Wake Forest Road location). Compared to Tiger Direct a 
> couple miles away, Intrex has more of what I want at 
> prices better than Tiger Direct and more knowledgeable 
> reps.

agree completely. I go to Intrex first. The people are nice, 
knowledgeable, helpful and remember me. I give them my money 
when I can.

Beats me why they can't test their hardware with Linux. I'd 
almost be up for volunteering to go through their hardware 
one saturday afternoon and find out for them. You'd only 
need to come in once every 3 months after that to keep 
the list upto date. The manager seemed reasonable enough 
that I thought he might go for it, at least untill he told 
me that he had no choice in the hardware he handled.

> It would be nice if we had a "Fry's electronics" in 
> Raleigh, but don't think that will happen in my lifetime. 
> Looks like the nearest fry's is in Georgia.

I'm on lists where the people who live in an area with 
a Fry's can't believe anyone would want one in their area.

> On the 1394 card issue, I purchased one at Intrex and it 
> worked perfectly. I had a motherboard failure. Replaced 
> the motherboard with a newer one and my 1394 card didn't 
> work with it. Could there be other factors other than the 
> card itself??

This happens to me. Reordering the PCI cards (or removing 
one) sometimes works (I think I have a dual ethernet card 
that stops working when I put in an extra disk controller 
card). I assume this is a problem of sharing interrupts. 
Changing kernels by a couple of the last numbers sometimes 
fixes it too. It's all monkey-typewriter-sonnet when you 
have to shuffle cards in slots.

Joe
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